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Chain Mail Panties [Light Fantasy/Gender Comedy]

@Lillian Well, we're starting with an almost completely formed party (the first scene will involve them recruiting the male wizard), so we can avoid that taxing process of getting all the PCs grouped and jump right into the story. That plus the light mood which will dissuade run-on posts, should help keep things progressing rather quickly.

Blight [OOC]

Yeah that was confusing, sorry. I envision the Hole as being pretty much always busy because lots of faeries do not work. However, when the dwarves and gnomes return tired from a day in the mines and factories it will be a whole nother level of crowded.

Blight [OOC]

@februari Just don't delete it. The post was good and I loved the troll character. It was just ahead of its time. You'll probably be able to use it in just a little while.

@Elsa So the fact that they're going to this extreme over a scratched up Jon should be a clue that that Jon was someone of importance. Also remember that elves are highly perceptive when it comes to social cues. The iron helms might shield them somewhat against elven glamers, but you might still be able to piece together what's going on in their heads to a fair degree of accuracy. The effect of the armor on telepathy would basically be like interference or static on a radio channel. You might get some information because the helms aren't solid iron, but it will be garbled.

Blight [OOC]

Greenlight District

Klayde's remaining eye narrowed at the haughty elf bitch who'd dared step to close to him. In the past he'd skewered faeries for coming within dagger reach, but he needed information and if possible he had to avoid a wholesale slaughter. Killing ten defenseless elfmaids, even if they were whores, would not serve to enhance the Iron Police's reputation among the city's faery loving progressives, not to mention how it would enrage the fae themselves. "This brothel is harboring a faery guilty of code 1-41, assault on a human. Give her up for sentencing or I swear to Dagon and all the Gods I'll have each and every one of you given the iron brand."

Behind his partner, Jaden shuffled nervously in his armor. The iron brand. He'd only done it once himself but it was.... horrible. A stamp of pure iron, in the shape of a pentacle, the hated symbol of both magic and the fae, pressed into the criminal's forehead. For a faery it was literally like being branded with a hot iron. Jaden remembered the horrible smell of burnt flesh, the smoke and the screams, Gods how he'd screamed. After that day, he'd prayed that he'd never need to give the brand again. Now he might have to brand, not some miserable goblin thief, but a defenseless, beautiful she elf. He focused on the alfar, so fair, so deceptively innocent, but he just couldn't look at her and he turned his head pretending to check the side streets for threats instead.

Blight [OOC]

februari said It was late evening when an entourage of Alfar...

No time traveling in this game :-P

Srsly, though, Februari, you generally can't time skip ahead like this in an RP post because it prevents the GM and everyone else from responding. If it was late evening I would have posted the moon thingy. Most of the action that has occurred has been highly localized and brief with lots and lots of dialogue and introspection (also most of it is happening concurrently because the players and NPCs are all separate). At best it's late afternoon, though the brothel scene has lagged and there it's more like late morning as the Iron Police went straight to their door after the morning rush. By doing the time/scene shift you also prevented me from having Torbil arrive at the sanctum so that you and Zemmum are aware of both the changeling and Delphi's location. That's why I said above

glibglobb said Once you write this scene I'll have Torbil return to the estate so that you can both learn from him the whereabouts of the fomori and the changeling. That should serve to put most of the PCs on a collision course.

What I recommend is to drop any assumption that an advanced post needs to be a certain length. I'm not part of the James Joyce 'school' of RP. Often a couple paragraphs is enough and if you're needing to time skip then you've definitely written too much.

We can fix this by just eliminating the time leap or reducing it to late afternoon and I'll have Torbil encounter you at the Hole instead, though, I kind of wanted to avoid that because that scene is WAY too crowded.

Blight [OOC]

@Elfwhores Sorry, could not resist. :-P I would really prefer that your characters be able to intervene because otherwise it's going to just be a huge GM post and there's been enough of those recently. Story needs more active player engagement in events.

If you have indeed already left perhaps you are still within sight of the brothel.

Blight [OOC]

Welcome back, it's cool, school comes first.

Chain Mail Panties [Light Fantasy/Gender Comedy]

Chain Mail Panties

Altaya is a cosmopolitan feudal world practically overflowing with fantasy stereotypes. In this modern land of knights and dragons but also internet and cell phones, adventurers are the ultimate celebrities. Whether they are traditional parties with long histories like Golden Lance <just look at our crest you guys>, corporate sell outs like The Bloody Griffons <drink fizz-aleᵀᴹ> or internet freelancers like Crystal Knights <like us on helmbook> all successful adventurers win the love, adulation and obsession of the public. Up until recently the fem-power party Chainmail Panties was among the most adored, proving with every slain dragon and ruthlessly slaughtered goblin village that girls could adventure just as well as men and look good doing it. Unfortunately, the party experienced a setback recently when their mage got outed as a diabolist. Chain Mail Pantie's popularity plummeted as an embarrassing video of her doing... things... with a conjured demon leaked onto the aethernet and went viral. Now the legendary girl power party needs a new wizard, but since no woman in her right mind would join the disgraced group, they will have to make a rather…. unorthodox recruitment decision.



Essentials

1) This is a light fantasy. I expect people who join to have a good sense of humor and a decent knowledge of the fantasy stereotypes we’ll be mocking.

2) I’m not a sexist, so please don’t. The reason the girls chose the name Chainmail Panties was to make fun of all the immature fan art floating around the aethernet showing female adventurers in skimpy armor. It’s tongue in cheek and none of the characters should literally be wearing chainmail panties, certainly not the tank.

3) Much of the game is drawing on net and geek culture so a good knowledge and familiarity with it will be essential to appreciating the jokes and making your own. Be aware, however, that the technology in the game is not really technology for it is all founded on magic. Hence terms like internet become aethernet and cellphones become spellphones.



Character Slots

Very very very basic categories here because I want players to be able to flex their creativity. Remember, this game is a light fantasy that makes fun of modern culture (geek culture specifically) so don’t be surprised to see terms from video games like World of Warcraft used literally by the characters in the RP. It’s all part of the mood.

1) Tank, female

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Although the archetypal tank is a hardy warrior in heavy armor, many tanking methods have arisen over the years from the steelbelly style of Sir Gusticate to the naked berserk style of Alaina the scarred. Some tanks forgo armor for massive weapons and maneuverability, while others learn limited healing arts to assuage their inevitable wounds. Whether knight, barbarian or paladin, however, the role of a tank remains the same. The tank grabs the attention of the opponent (often by aiming over much at its crotch) and is prepared to take every ounce of pain it can dish out. Because they take the hits so their comrades don't have to, Tanks are usually respected in their group. For this reason Tanks tend to gravitate toward the leadership role.

2) Rogue, female

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Halton Elvweir the 3rd, classical treasure hunter and author of over two hundred penny novels in the age before aethernet once wrote, "if it doesn't look trapped, it's trapped. If it looks trapped, it is also trapped. In fact, the only thing that isn't trapped is a dead rogue in a sprung trap, except in those rare cases that the trap is also trapped." Due to the profusion of traps, complex locks and puzzles in dungeons (particularly professionally designed ones), no party ventures out without a cunning rogue at their side. Rogues are the least likely adventurers to receive classical training. Many actually come from the dregs of society learning their trade on the street rather than the classroom. In the slums, becoming a professional rogue is the dream of thousands of poverty stricken children, though, few make it through the thieves gauntlets designed to separate the agile and cunning from the clumsy and eviscerated. Not unsurprisingly, rogues are among the least trusted members of parties and stories of neutral evil rogues faking their allignment tests only to make off with the first big treasure haul abound. Many rogues, however, are team players and suffer unfairly under this stereotype.

3) Bard, female,

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In the modern world where internet trolls often represent a bigger threat to adventurers than actual trolls, the role of bard, each party's online PR expert, has become essential. Bards are eloquent and tech savvy adventurers who go no where without their spellphones and rune pads. In ancient times Bards spent their lives penning grand poetic verses, but now their work has moved into the aether where they spend their time uploading video streams of party victories, blogging about their adventures and, in some cases, anonymously trolling rival groups. This is not to say bards play no role in real adventuring. Due to their vast knowledge, bards are invaluable sources of lore ready to moogle the weaknesses of an eccentric monster or pull vital information on an evil antipaladin from his helmbook page. And, with their technomagic skills Bards are occasionally needed to hack and slash into an evil wizard's spell files or upload a hex into a dungeon operating system. Bards are also jacks of all trades picking up dashes of both combat and magical skills throughout their career.

4) Healer, female

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In a world where alchemy is big business and healing potions can be bought in 24 packs at your local Copper Store, many parties choose to operate without a devoted healer and instead just take a swig of Red-tubeᵀᴹ (Red it & Forget it!) when an ogre scores a lucky hit. Even adventurers who fall can be brought back later at local temples, so long as their body isn't in too many pieces. Despite these advances, many parties (especially those who can afford it), continue to keep a healer in the group even if this means they must occasionally suffer a sanctimonious lecture on morality. Healers come from seminaries, monestaries, temples, churches, circles and covens. They range from mind numbing social conservatives who still think their God made women out of an ear bone in order to cook meatloaf and pump out babies, to the radical feminist witches who only dance naked under the moon when its a really slow night. All healers, however, have some skill in the restorative and abjuring magical arts, both protecting their friends from harm and sealing their wounds so that they don't have to bother fumbling with potions in the middle of a sword fight with an eight sworded sword-spider.

5) Mage, male

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Mages are undoubtedly the biggest nerds of the adventuring world. Not overly known for physical fitness, your average wizard has spent four years as an undergraduate apprentice at their local Arcane College, two years as a master's student spending long nights toiling over stinking cauldrons, and a further two years to earn their SpD (doctorate in spellcraft) and with it their official guild license. After all this work, most wizards choose to take big contracts from Alchemy and Spelltech companies or a lofty professorship rather than go trampsing through the wilderness with a bunch of immature hack&slashers. Only the eccentric and desperate follow the route of the adventuring mage and as a result party magicians have a reputation for insanity and ineptitude both. Despite their frailty and idiosyncrasies, however, wizards remain essential to the adventuring process. Warlocks, often unlicensed magicians, are a common opponent and without a mage to counter their curses most parties would end their adventures in unenviable animal forms. Mages also bring a degree of classical schooling to groups that the hi-tech bards lack, able to translate the ancient scripts which still can be found etched on dungeon walls across the realms and which often bear important messages like, 'watch for infinite abyss or beware wyvern.'

Please submit characters here in the thread. Since this is a situational comedy, it will help immensely to know who the other characters are so that you can design your own for maximum comedic impact.

Character Sheet

Name
Pic <try to choose something not too serious, anime is fine>
Class <your specific adventurer training>
Race <stick to the standard fantasy fare: elf & dwarf, I will allow only one of each since humans are far more common>
Personality
Physical description
Background <specifically how you became an adventurer>
Talents
Flaws
Quote <something you would say or do say annoyingly often>
Treasure <various magical items you've nabbed over the years>
Magic <if applicable, not a list of every spell but rather the general theme of your abilities>
Relationships <how do you feel about the other partymembers, who's your BFF and who frustrates you to no end, to be worked out in the OOC>
Allies <friends, contacts, pets, or other allies not official members of the CMP>

That's it but please ask questions. I enjoy fielding questions about my RPs so don't hold back. Also, though I normally don't play characters in my own games this one is too fun to pass up. However, I will let others have the first pick on roles and fill in the remaining spot when we approach the magic number. Also know that I won't be doing reserve spots. I'll pick the submissions based on quality and creativity not post time.

Blight [OOC]

@februari I completely agree. Sometimes people, and I count myself guilty of this occasionally, go full on Steinbeck and devote pages to minutia or how a single event made their character feel. I try to post like Tolkein or Ursula K. Le Guin would and go for a poetic economy of words, though it does not always work because I am not Tolkein and I am definitely not Ursula.

Blight [OOC]

@Tali No, as I read it they were just preparing to leave so the cops literally caught them at the door. Ultimately it's up to Mischief to determine since it was her/his post.

@Elsa Don't kill yourself over quality. I mean I like good posts, but I want people to have fun not give themselves nose bleeds and crash http://thesaurus.com/